LIVINGSTON MANOR — The lurid story of the so-called madam mom Anna Gristina, the Monroe woman accused of running a pricey brothel in Manhattan, has shocked friends and family in the northern Sullivan County hamlet where Gristina's husband grew up. Monroe, prostitution ring, Kelvin Gorr, Orange County, New York

LIVINGSTON MANOR — The lurid story of the so-called madam mom Anna Gristina, the Monroe woman accused of running a pricey brothel in Manhattan, has shocked friends and family in the northern Sullivan County hamlet where Gristina's husband grew up.

The Scottish-born mother of four who authorities say made millions on a busy brothel on East 78th Street lives in a secluded home in Monroe and is married to Kelvin Gorr, who grew up some 65 miles away in Livingston Manor.

Gorr's older brother, Jake Gorr, a detective in the Sullivan County Sheriff's Office, described the couple as "everyday ordinary parents." As far as the family knew, Gristina, 44, whom Kelvin Gorr married a decade ago after a whirlwind romance, was "a stay at home mom."

"He is very, very good-hearted and so is she," the detective said. "He is a super dad. They were an ordinary family, take care of their kids, everyday ordinary parents." Gorr said his family is fond of the petite and friendly Gristina.

"We are all very close, holidays together, birthdays."

Gorr said that he didn't see any evidence of a multimillion-dollar lifestyle at his brother and sister-in-law's home, which was encircled by news media after Gristina was charged. The story broke late Monday and by Wednesday, Kelvin Gorr appeared on the front page of the New York Post in an intimate shower photo with his wife that had been posted on Facebook. Gorr said his brother is distraught and confused by the turn of events. "They live like any other normal people."

Kelvin Gorr made headlines once already, 20 years ago when he saved his mom from a rapist.

He was then a 6-foot-3-inch high school football hero who was stabbed in the neck and chest saving his mother from the knife-wielding intruder. Gorr was 17 in 1991 when he heard his mother scream in the next room in their Manor apartment. He ran into the room and pulled the attacker off his mother, Kathy.

"He came in like a roar, like they use in football," Kathy Gorr told the Times Herald-Record in 1991. "Kelvin picked him up and threw him off me."

When the assailant fled, her son ran after him — despite bloody knife wounds in his neck and chest that resulted in a punctured lung.

Kelvin Gorr is the president of FutureNet Realty Group, which he founded 10 years ago, according to his LinkedIn profile.

FutureNet's Facebook page describes Gorr as a "veteran broker," with "extensive experience representing high net worth (and) high profile clientele in the sports and entertainment industries." The company's website lists six high-end properties in southern Orange County and two in Rockland.

Gorr's profile also says he founded Lifestyle Rescue Inc., an online advice company, in 2009. Kelvin Gorr couldn't be reached Wednesday; the telephone for FutureNet had been temporarily disconnected; the one at Lifestyle Rescue was not active, and he didn't return emails by press time.

On Wednesday, folks in the Manor remembered Gorr — who played tackle for Livingston Manor High School — as a "real good kid," said Judy Melchick, whose son and daughter went to school with him. "Never, ever any problems," she said about the man who now sells real estate and, she says, left town after high school.

Same thing goes for Gorr's family, said other folks in town. (Melvin, another brother, is an officer with the Liberty Police Department.) "I know the family and they are a nice family," said Shirley Fulton. "You are not going to find anybody in town say anything but good things."

Times Herald-Record staff writer Nathan Brown contributed to this report.